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22%OFFLene M. Johannessen - Horizons of Enchantment - 9781611680003 - V9781611680003
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Horizons of Enchantment

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Description for Horizons of Enchantment Paperback. A unique and original reading of the American imaginary Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of "modern magic" that can loosely be characterized as a fundamental and unwavering faith in the secular sanctity of the American project of modernity. Among the diverse topics and cultural artifacts she examines are the Norwegian American novel A Saloonkeeper's Daughter by Drude Krog Janson, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, Rodolfo Gonzales's I Am Joaquín, Richard Ford's The Sportwriter, Ana ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611680003
SKU
V9781611680003
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